T.S Eliot Quote

Of all poets, I'm drawing close to a blank on who influenced Eliot.

Certainly Whitman... especially the Whitman of When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

Whitman was a Camden resident and a nurse in the Civil War. Do you have any concept as to how he influenced him. Stylisticly I guess but content? This needs another look.

Stlukesguild: Since I have a meeting in the Am, let us continue tomorrow eve. This is a delight. Great fun.

Yes... Virgil's checked out already... and I would love to go to the studio tomorrow... the first time in 3 days.

.....The hippopotamus's day
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
God works in a mysterious way -
The church can sleep and feed at once

I saw the 'potamus take wing
Ascending from the damp savannas,
And quiring angels round him sing
The praise of God, in loud hosannas.

Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
Performing on a harp of gold.

He shall be washed as white as snow,
By all martyr'd virgins kist,
While the True Church remains below
Wrapt in old miasmal mist.

-- T. S. Eliot {last stanzas of "Hippopotamus"}

http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/z...1/TSEliot2.jpg --- Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot